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August 02, 2017

Math packet due the first day of classes, Tuesday, August 15: Be reminded- Summer Math and Reading. As for summer reading, those tests are scheduled a few days after we get going, but get busy completing those books now. Students receive a 3-point bump on their Quarter 1 English grade if they score well on these quizzes.

Next week:

Let’s prep for a brief reminder of what happens when the assault on the boys' summer freedom lands at your doorsteps next week.

Some helpful resources: MUS Calendar. Note: The MUS Lower School Blog is not the official athletic scheduling source. We point you to the Athletics calendar.

Tuesday, August 8: Book sale, Ross M. Lynn Arena (19). Please park at Stokes Stadium, and enter the south door of the Hyde Sports Center, the glass doors facing the parking lot. 9-11 a.m. for the seventh graders, 1-3 p.m. for the eighth graders. Boys get their schedules, locker numbers, books, and MUS bling. TAKE YOUR BOOKS HOME. Reminder: Seventh graders get their photos taken for Owl Camp at Book Sale, not their formal yearbook photos. The official yearbook photo is scheduled for Convocation Day, August 14. Seventh graders will receive their Official Class of 2023 Owl Camp T-Shirt and water bottle as they exit the Book Sale.

New eighth graders and their parents have a lunch hosted by the MUS Lower School student council and Honor Council 11:30-12:30 p.m. in the Campus Center, Halperin-Gillespie Room for the boys, Dining Hall for the parents. They get a jump on the Book Sale line as we will line then up first.

After we corral the lads and make sure all are wearing the Official Class of 2023 Owl Camp T-Shirt, we'll line up boys in an alphabetized, organized fashion along the cloister at the Lower School south curb, put remaining stuff in their corresponding bus, get the meds contained and explained with Mrs. Poag, and moms and dads can go get an early date night.

Eighth grade football practice, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, August 9: Eighth graders chill. Seventh graders are out of town.

Monday, August 14: Convocation Day, arrive by 8:00 a.m. at the Lower School dressed in coat-and-tie. Returning eighth grade students free to leave campus following yearbook pictures. All seventh graders and new eighth graders: Pick-up at the Lower School at 2:30. The boys will be allowed to call parents and confirm pick-up time, no ASAP, football practices at 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, August 15: First day of classes, arrive by 8:00 a.m., bring all books, regular school attire (we'll clarify attire at Parent Camps. Basically, no jeans, no canvas or leather sneakers, no shorts, no cargo pants. Collared shirt, tucked into long pants, secured with a belt, leather or suede shoes). Classes dismiss at 3:15 p.m.

Students are encouraged to go to the library, computer lab, talk to friends, mill about as they pack up from the day in prep for the next day.

Other than football, fall sports (cross-country and golf) will announce their practice schedules as classes begin.

The bell rings at 3:40 p.m. All Lower School students must be gone from campus by 3:40 p.m. daily unless engaged in an MUS-sanctioned extra-curricular event, or they must report to the After School Academic Program (ASAP).

Football players are dismissed at 4:55 p.m., and they go dress in the Lower School PE Locker Room in the Athletic Building. Players are not to enter the Lower School building once dressed for practice.

For parents wanting Junior to stay and study before pick-up, regardless of after-school sports, ASAP runs until 5:30 p.m. daily, no sign-up required. Drop in. Bring/eat a snack. The cost is $15/day, billed monthly. Attendance is taken daily, and there are plenty of seats in the Dunavant Lecture Hall. Math lab available for the first hour of some days, and that will be determined and announced. Pick-up can be at any time before 5:30 p.m. when the building is locked. Please be on time. We teachers have families to get back to as well, and we want to go home.

Hopefully this info helps. Enjoy these last few days of relative freedom. Help Junior find the time to complete the Summer math packets and the Summer reading requirements. Again, the math evaluations are due the first day of class. The reading tests will occur around the second week of classes.

May 03, 2017

Thursday, May 4, 8:30 a.m. to about 3:30 p.m., our YMCA Youth Legislature delegation descends upon Memphis City Hall at 125 N. Main Street for the day. Boys are to arrive and be picked up on their own. Bring lunch money. Details in the above link.

April 27, 2017

Eighth grade boys are pulling out around 8:30 a.m. Friday morning, going to STAX Museum, the Rendezvous for lunch, and then we finish our day at the National Civil Rights Museum. We return to MUS about 2:30 p.m.

April 07, 2017

Eighth boys survived the nomination and election rounds with their classmates today in order to run for next year's Honor Council. Four seventh graders and four eighth graders will give speeches next Thursday during Lower School assembly. Following, we will vote at lunch in order to elect two rising eighth grade and two rising ninth grade representatives for the 2017-18 Honor Council.